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Zach Weinersmith | website

Alt TextThat janitor just goes from building to building helping people.

Bonus Panel

Transcript10-panel SMBC comic update.

All the panels are dialogue-less.

Two researchers are writing equations on a chalkboard.

A janitor watches them from afar.

The researchers leave as the janitor is still mopping the floor.

The janitor walks up to the chalkboard and writes on it with purpose, admires what he wrote, and leave late in the evening.

The two researchers return at dawn, and are shocked by what is written on the blackboard.

Over their half-erased equations, the text β€œChatGPT, do a breakthru, no mistakes, thankx.”

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This funny but so cruel. If you have any interest, check the interview of the mathetician (YouTube, Numberphile) whose work OpenAI stole.

Seriously, FuckAI.

[–] FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't it happen twice already?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago

In both math and chemistry from what's been published so far

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seriously. I have a product I just invented that I might be able to make a living manufacturing and selling (it's a cheap but effective practice instrument) but I'm not so much as uploading photos from my old digital camera before I talk to an IP lawyer (I can think of one specific patent I might be infringing) just in case Amazon starts getting ideas

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Speaking of talented math YouTubers, have you seen bprp?

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reminds me of when Troy fixed the water fountain in Community.

[–] hypnicjerk@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

both that scene and this strip are references to the movie good will hunting

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Here is a breakthrough in mathematics right quick. It’s 1+1=1 because the two ones have been fused together to make a longer number but it’s still one.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

or take 0.6+0.6=1.2 and round it to 1+1=1

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Johannes Kepler lost his nose because of an argument of 2+2=5 with greater values of 2. You deserve to lose a nose.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Tycho's_nose

On 29 December 1566 at the age of 20, Tycho lost part of his nose in a sword duel with a fellow Danish nobleman, his third cousin Manderup Parsberg. At an engagement party at the home of Professor Lucas Bachmeister on 10 December the two had drunkenly quarreled over who was the superior mathematician.[12] On 29 December, the cousins resolved their feud with a duel in the dark. Though the two were later reconciled, in the duel Tycho lost the bridge of his nose and gained a broad scar across his forehead.[13]

It's sort of like how Russian's prove who has the better car insurer after an accident

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hahah, that's the one I was thinking of, though I couldn't remember the origin, thanks!

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Found the engineer.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

0.4 + 0.4 = 0.8
0 + 0 = 1

Or how about
0.4 x 2 = 0.8
0 x 2 = 1

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is the opposite of what I've heard about extremely large values of two.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought 1 + 1 = 11, specifically because it's two ones fused together?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

1 + 1 = cucumber? The fuck

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's binary duh!

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then it would be 10.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

ΒΉ+ΒΉ=1

[–] MunkyNutts@feddit.online 18 points 2 weeks ago

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good Sol Hunting

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She gave me her tokens. How do ya like dem apples?!

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of when Troi fixed the holodeck in TNG

[–] Sibshops@feddit.cl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ivy league janitor never ceases to amaze me.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago